Re: Simple question

[fred smith <fredex fcshome stoneham ma us>]

On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 05:47:28PM -0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> Fred Smith wrote:
> >cd matt/..	# looks weird, huh?... what this means is to go to the
> >		# directory which is matt's parent.
> 
> Of course, this command would only work if you were already in the
> parent directory.  I assume you didn't mean this to be taken literally.

No, of course not. I was trying to indicate that you should change to
the 'matt' directory's parent, wherever it may be, and that by doing so
you could then create a tar archive whose top-level directory would be
matt.

Fred
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